Films, Discussion
Cinefemme Slate 2024
Cinefemme is proud to present its 2024 slate of sponsored films.
Made by women in tech about female founders, Makeshift Society aims to make shift happen in television. The Red Shoe depicts a Jewish grandmother’s true story of escape from Holocaust as a girl. Here She Comes is a groundbreaking pilot by the founders of sexuality and relationship therapy Somatica Method that seeks to shake taboos. In Coppola Mécanique, Francis Ford Coppola shares how a legendary penny arcade in San Francisco deeply influenced the heart and mind of a great American auteur.
Date
Nov 3
Time
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Place
Sane Living
Length
1h 30m
People/Organization
Cinefemme, Michelle Kantor
Panelists
Michelle Kantor
An OG leader for women filmmakers, Michelle Kantor founded Cinefemme at San Francisco State University and served as Executive Director since 2007. She produced over 60 features, shorts and festivals by women via Cinefemme’s fiscal sponsorship incubator. Her docuseries ROUTE 66 WOMEN was broadcast on PBS. She speaks French, Czech & Slovak.
Arielle Beth Klein
Writer/Actor/Producer
Arielle Beth Klein is a Jewish, Queer, NYC-based actor and writer. She has worked in theater, film, and television. Her solo play My Shiksa Boyfriend has been produced several times (United Solo 2022, Kervigo Ensemble Theater, New Yiddish Rep). Arielle is a teaching artist at The Barrow Group. www.ariellebethklein.com
Jessica Habie
Creator, Director and Executive Producer
Jessica Habie is the founder of Here She Comes TV and the creator and director of Here She Comes. An award winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is the director of the feature film Mars at Sunrise (2014) which is part of the Palestinian Voices Series on Netflix.
Serena Schuler
Writer/Director
Serena Schuler is an award-winning writer, director, and series creator. Inspired by her experience and research in the tech industry, she created the pilot episode of MAKESHIFT SOCIETY. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, and won Audience Awards at the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival.